Check out what's in my CD changer right now!

[NightTrain]

Back in 1998, I e-mailed a friend of mine who is a veteran rock critic, and asked him to recommend some good songs from the last decade or so. My friend provided me with a list of about 100 songs, all of which I subsequently found and burned onto six CDs, alphabetically by title.

I hadn't listened to those discs in a while, but I pulled them out about an hour ago, threw them into my CD carousel, and hit "random." The track listing follows:

All I Wanna Do, Sheryl Crow
All This Time, Sting
At Your Best, Aaliyah
Baby Got Back, Sir Mix-A-Lot
Ballad of the Skeletons, Allen Ginsberg
Better Man, Pearl Jam
Big Poppa, The Notorious B.I.G.
Black Hole Sun, Soundgarden
Blue, LeAnn Rimes
Buffalo Stance, Neneh Cherry
Caribbean Blue, Enya
Carnival, Natalie Merchant
Christmas in Washington, Steve Earle
Close My Eyes Forever, Lita Ford and Ozzy Osbourne
Closer to Free, The BoDeans
Cream, Prince
Daughter, Pearl Jam
Dear Mama, Tupac
Doggy Dogg World, Snoop Doggy Dogg
Doll Parts, Hole
Dre Day, Dr. Dre
Enter Sandman, Metallica
Everybody Hurts, R.E.M.
Fields of Gold, Sting
Free Your Mind, En Vogue
Fuck tha Police, NWA
Gangsta's Paradise, Coolio
The Ghost of Tom Joad, Rage Against the Machine
Gin and Juice, Snoop Doggy Dogg
Give Me One Reason, Tracy Chapman
Go Rest High on That Mountain, Vince Gill
Heart of the Matter, Don Henley
How Bizarre, OMC
How I Could Just Kill a Man, Cypress Hill
The Humpty Dance, Digital Underground
Hunger Strike, Temple of the Dog
I Ain't Mad At Cha, Tupac
I Can't Make You Love Me, Bonnie Raitt
I Drove All Night, Cyndi Lauper
I Wanna Be Down, Brandy
I Wanna Sex You Up, Color Me Badd
I Was Wrong, Social Distortion
I'll Be You, The Replacements
I'll Make Love to You, BoyzIIMen
I'll Stand by You, Pretenders
If I Ruled the World, Nas
It Was a Good Day, Ice Cube
Jeremy, Pearl Jam
Jump Around, House of Pain
Justify My Love, Madonna
Keep Ya Head Up, Tupac
Killing Me Softly, The Fugees
Kiss from a Rose, Seal
Little Walter, Tony! Toni! Tone!
The Look, Roxette
Losing My Religion, R.E.M.
Mama Said Knock You Out, LL Cool J
Me Myself and I, De La Soul
Me So Horny, 2 Live Crew
Method Man, Wu Tang Clan
Mind Playing Tricks on Me, The Geto Boys
Missing You, Puff Daddy
Mr. Jones, Counting Crows
Money Don't Matter 2 Night, Prince
Murder Was the Case, Snoop Doggy Dogg
My Homies, Ice-T
My Hooptie, Sir Mix-A-Lot
My Love (You're Never Gonna Get It), En Vogue
Nick of Time, Bonnie Raitt
No Diggity, Dr. Dre
Not Gon' Cry, Mary J. Blige
Nothing Compares 2 U, Sinead O'Connor
November Rain, Guns 'N' Roses
Nuthin' But a 'G' Thang, Dr. Dre
One, U2
O.P.P., Naughty by Nature
Poison, Bell Biv DeVoe
Pop Goes the Weasel, 3rd Base
Promises Broken, Soul Asylum
Regulate, Warren G. and Nate Dogg
Runaway Train, Soul Asylum
Set Adrift on Memory Bliss, P.M. Dawn
Sexy M.F., Prince
She Drives Me Crazy, Fine Young Cannibals
Shoop, Salt'n'Pepa
6th Avenue Heartache, The Wallflowers
Smells Like Teen Spirit, Nirvana
Stay Real, EPMD
Steady Mobbin, Ice Cube
Still the One, Shania Twain
Strange Currencies, R.E.M.
Strawberry Wine, Deana Carter
Streets of Philadelphia, Bruce Springsteen
Tears in Heaven, Eric Clapton
Tennessee, Arrested Development
This Is for the Lover in You, Babyface
Time Bomb, Rancid
Walk the Dinosaur, Was Not Was
Whatta Man, Salt'n'Pepa
Wicked Game, Chris Isaak
Wish List, Pearl Jam
You Oughta Know, Alanis Morissette

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

1. Just goes to show

You should never listen to a critic...

:evilgrin:

[NightTrain]

2. I know you're being facetious, but...

...there's quite a bit of good material on those CDs. Unfortunately, there's also stuff I can't stand, but one man's garbage is another man's gold.

Whatever the case, it was nice to finally have at least some knowledge of the mass-appeal music of the '90s. I didn't feel quite as out of touch! :)